This paper discusses three typological differences between the North Germanic DP and the West Germanic DP. While North Germanic has suffixal definite articles leading to cases of double definiteness, weak adjective endings regulated by definiteness, and doubly-filled definite DPs, West Germanic does not. These three properties cluster together in that they all have to do with definiteness. It is claimed that they can be subsumed under one more general difference. Assuming various subcomponents of definiteness, it is proposed that these components originate low in the structure. North Germanic arranges these components into several individual feature bundles. Some of these bundles move to D, while others remain lower in the structure. Consequently, definiteness components are spelled out separately in different positions. In contrast, West Germanic involves one complex feature bundle containing all definiteness components. In this language family, all of the components move to D as one bundle and, as a consequence, they are all spelled out as one determiner.

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北日耳曼语和西日耳曼语 DPs 的三种类型差异

本文讨论了北日耳曼语 DP 和西日耳曼语 DP 之间的三个类型差异。虽然北日耳曼语有后缀定冠词导致双重定性，弱形容词词尾受定性调节，以及双填充定主词，但西日耳曼语没有。这三个属性聚集在一起，因为它们都与确定性有关。据称，它们可以归入一个更普遍的差异。假设各种子成分是确定的，建议这些成分起源于结构的低位。北日耳曼语将这些组件排列成几个单独的功能包。其中一些捆绑移动到 D，而其他捆绑则保持在结构中的较低位置。因此，确定性成分在不同的位置被分别拼写出来。相比之下，西日耳曼语涉及一个包含所有确定性组件的复杂特征包。在这个语言家族中，所有的组件都作为一个包移到 D 中，因此，它们都被拼写为一个限定符。